Links from 2013
- Want to learn to code? Start here. | Zack Shapiro blog.zackshapiro.com
- csscss by zmoazeni zmoazeni.github.io
- Handy Git tips to stop you getting fired blog.apiaxle.com
- Rijksmuseum to reopen after dazzling refurbishment and rethink m.guardian.co.uk
- Media Queries are a Hack by Ian Storm Taylor ianstormtaylor.com
- Richard (K) Morgan » Blog Archive » Raise a Glass richardkmorgan.com
- The New Atlantis » The Ambiguous Utopia of Iain M. Banks thenewatlantis.com
- Stop externalising your life | James Shakespeare jshakespeare.com
- Check you're wearing trousers first robertheaton.com
<blockquote>Simple solutions are almost always quickest, easiest and most effective. Maybe sometimes it does turn out that they aren’t enough and you do in fact need to do something hard. But if people in the street keep giving you funny looks, make sure you’re wearing trousers before you start worrying about what colour they are.</blockquote>
- Invalid gemspec because of the date format in specification stackoverflow.com
- Preview of Merrell M–Connect shoes for Spring 2013 toesalad.com
- Effective Django — Effective Django effectivedjango.com
- Another Studio postcarden.com
Architectural models of London (and other) landmarks.
- wkhtmltopdf code.google.com
<blockquote>Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.</blockquote>
- My Interview Questions for Potential Employers | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- joelcarranza/particular-pinboard · GitHub github.com
<blockquote>An enhanced pinboard bookmarklet for the persnickety</blockquote>
- Learning JavaScript - my experience and advice | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- My vagrant setup on OSX - Reinout van Rees reinout.vanrees.org
- The Flask Mega-Tutorial, Part I: Hello, World! - miguelgrinberg.com blog.miguelgrinberg.com
- blueutil » Command-Line Control of Bluetooth on the Mac frederikseiffert.de
<blockquote>A command-line utility to control Bluetooth on Mac OS X.</blockquote>
- Welcome to Believe.in believe.in
Finding the ad-agency-heavy board of advisers a little off-putting.
- The Power of Proxy Activism davidbrin.com
<blockquote>Proxy Power is the uniquely convenient -- but seldom discussed -- ability of a modern person to participate in activism... helping to change or improve the world... by the simple expedience of joining some group that is vigorously pursuing that part of your personal agenda. In other words, you add both your membership dues and the political impact of your membership, in order to get behind people who are striving to save the world for you.</blockquote>
A beginning, not an end.
<blockquote>Investing too heavily in someone else’s proprietary system for too long rarely ends gracefully, but when it bites us, we have nobody to blame but ourselves.</blockquote>
- The brutal truth about marketing your software product | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- gk :: Firefoxes [notepad] gkoberger.net
<blockquote>bash script to install major Firefox versions on Mac OS X</blockquote>
Doof. Bit hidden away.
- Three Months to Scale NewsBlur - The NewsBlur Blog blog.newsblur.com
Turn Disk Utility's Debug menu on, mount the recovery partition, run firmware password tool from the recovery image. Useful when display is fried, sorting via VNC.
- Hugin - Panorama photo stitcher hugin.sourceforge.net
Tea killed screen.
- DollyDrive - Online Backup,Sync and Space for Mac dollydrive.com
- Japanese Telecom – Japanese Animation youtube.com
<blockquote>I honestly believe Mozilla is committed to freedom and privacy on the web. Google is committed to making money and knowing everything I do. Firefox greets me with a page explaining my rights as a user of open source software. Chrome greets me with… sigh… Chrome greets me with a fucking advertisement for a Chromebook.</blockquote>
- When Bowie met Burroughs | Music | The Guardian guardian.co.uk
Possibly the world's only cardboard office furniture manufacturer, but still.